$110 million For Gene Therapy for SCID

Severe combined immunodeficinct (SCID) is a rough diagnosis, that leaves the immune system of a patient at high risk for serious infections. Orchard Therapeutics wants to develop a treatment SCID using the technology everyone is talking about these days– gene therapy.

They recently announced that they had raised $110 million to push the development along. They already have research underway, and more results are expected later on in 2018.

Read all about it in Reuters. Read more news on SCID here.